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Eine literarische Revolution ;-)
(A literary revolution ;-))
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 10.2.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, translation
Summary | Originating in the late 1990s in Japan, emojis have gained huge popularity worldwide. Some say they are destroying our language, others use emojis for poetic endeavors. Fred Benenson has for instance re-written the classic story of Moby Dick using emojis. The project was crowd funded and is called “Emoji Dick”. Apple has recently put into action an online petition calling for more ethnic diversity among emojis.
Image Description | Digital image representing 180 different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Jeu capeschel nout!
(I don’t understand anything!)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 8.6.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | language threat, translation
Summary | Experts predict the digital extinction of ‘smaller’ languages online. The global lingua franca -particularly in the digital sphere- is English, and it will come to displace all other languages in the digital sphere. Many translation services (e.g. Skype translator) achieve better results when translating into English than into German for instance. Governments should fund the creation of online services in their national languages. The Welsh government has already set up a fund for the creation of Welsh online services while the Swiss National Foundation (SNF) has no such plans for the creation of Romansh online content.
Image Description | Screenshot of the movie Star Trek: Mr. Spock is holding a translation device.
Image Tags | male(s)
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